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Tuesday, July 05, 2011

The Compromise? You Die!

The ObozoGummint has decreed that CAFE will be 56++ MPG by 2020, or some such date.

In 1999, USA Today reported that CAFE standards had been responsible for 46,000 deaths since 1978. In 2003, a study by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration found that reducing a vehicle’s weight by 100 pounds increased fatality rates 3 percent for light trucks, 4.7 percent for big cars, and 5.6 percent for small cars.

I am willing to concede that CAFE standards is ONE of SEVERAL reasons why fatality rates have increased during that time frame. Weather conditions, impaired drivers, the models involved in those actual accidents (e.g. SUV vs. compact, midsize vs. midsize), all play roles. But to make the claim CAFE is THE or MAJOR reason for increased deaths is taking matters to the extreme.

Dad29, think about it. Each accident situation is unique. A snowstorm may have caused a Car A, whose driver was going too fast, to hit Car B. A drunken fool in Car B may have hit Car A and Car C. In both cases, the makes/models involved MAY have been reduced in weight. The accidents result in fatalities. So what caused those deaths? Lighter weight of cars? Poor weather? Impaired driver? So there is validity to what I am saying. All factors played a role.

Dad29, please read for meaning. I never stated nor made that implication.

Fact--Auto-related fatalities are the result of a myriad of factors.

Anony 7:18--Survivability MAY decrease in smaller cars. Depends if the person in that vehicle was wearing a seatbelt, whether the car was hit in the side, in the back, or in the front, how fast each car was going. Again, MANY factors involved.